Buffalo News

June 19--WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government has agreed to change the terms of a $1.2 million federal grant to allow the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority to speed up its study of building a mass transit link between downtown Buffalo and Amherst.

A former housing site that lines the streets of Michigan and Fosdick avenues - right in front of City Honors School and right near the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus - is coming down.

Western New York's only radio show specifically addressing Native issues. Host, John Kane, has been a voice for Native sovereignty for several decades and now is on air broadcasting on the 50,000 watts of power from WWKB 1520AM.

A white woman in a mostly white neighborhood in South Buffalo believes she was targeted because she has black friends.

When it comes to men's suits, it's not always easy to find exactly what you're looking for.

The Taste of Buffalo presented by Tops Markets, celebrates its 30th birthday this summer and everyone is invited to the two-day culinary event.

Federico Fellini's 1960 film La Dolce Vita spawned the term "paparazzi," and not a moment too soon - the tumultuous decade to follow would begin the revolution that eventually rendered quaint the previous generation's concepts of celebrity, boundaries and appropriateness.

The Atlanta-based upscale sandwich and soup chain that specializes in healthy options will be opening in July in the Granite Works, a restored historic building on Main Street along the western edge of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

Sunday around 7:45 p.m., Ming Sengphanith of Buffalo was pulled over on Rt. 33 in Cheektowaga for speeding.

Rachel Robinson, widow of baseball hall of famer Jackie Robinson, came to Buffalo to speak at New Era Cap's annual sales meeting at the Statler City Hotel.

The 4,400 square foot Italian themed restaurant is located in the old Horton Coffee Company building on Ellicott Street.

Jun. 17, 2013 - BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Actress Lynn Lowry has joined the cast of Sam Qualiana's upcoming found footage monster movie The Legend of Six Fingers, according to author and filmmaker Gregory Lamberson , who is producing.

Walking into the small showroom on West Delevan in Buffalo, I knew this was not your average locally-produced collection.

New York state's high school graduation rate held steady at 74 percent for the first class of students required to meet stricter graduation requirements, proving, education officials said Monday, that raising the bar was the right move.

Twenty of Western New York's 97 school districts posted graduation rates of 90 percent or higher last year, according to new figures released this afternoon by the New York State Education Department .

The injury and death of a Buffalo firefighter in 2006 is the subject of an unusual lawsuit filed by his wife against the doctors at the nursing home where he spent nearly a decade after his on-duty injury.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Drake fans need to break out their calendars, because the Toronto-born star is coming to Buffalo.

Robert S. Hardison, 24, Milford, Conn., also was charged at 2:10 a.m. Sunday by Jefferson County sheriff's deputies with speeding on Route 11 in LeRay.

This morning, we're headed to a 150-year old Buffalo mansion in Allentown that now holds one of Western New York's hidden gems.

The Buffalo History Museum, located at One Museum Ct. in Buffalo, presents the Party on the Portico concert series on three Fridays this summer: June 21st, July 19th and August 16th.